Synodic month length 29.46 days

Length of current 218 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute. It is 2 hours and 42 minutes shorter than next lunation 219 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 44 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 25 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 13 September 2017 Wednesday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠49.5°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠49.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠79°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon in perigee

Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 16:04, this is 14 days after last apogee on 30 August 2017 at 11:25 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 13 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 27 September 2017 at 06:49 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 369 856 km

This perigee Moon is 369 856 km(229 818 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2017. It is 7 348 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 500 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

8 days after its descending node on 4 September 2017 at 18:41 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 17 September 2017 at 18:28 in ♌ Leo.

Draconic month

Moon before northern standstill

12 days after previous South standstill on 1 September 2017 at 02:03 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.393°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.438° in the next northern standstill on 14 September 2017 at 13:00 in ♋ Cancer.